> : Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> > Well, ideally this is something that should be coordinated with the cron package. I've sent a one-liner patch, as this put the least work on cron maintainers: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773095 I guess they can apply it right away, even during the freeze; if there were a new RC bug popping up; this could even be included in Jessie. > How do the other cron replacements, like bcron, handle this? It seems not to implement this feature. > It feels cleaner to me To me too, I guess I could check in preinst [1] that /etc/cron.allow or /etc/cron.deny even exists (by default no) [2] that some version of cron without this patch is installed before deleting cron.postrm as last resort. > : Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> > Move the handling of those (and any other) common files or dirs > (like /etc/cron.allow, /etc/cron.deny, crontab.5, /etc/crontab, > the /etc/cron.* dirs and placeholders, and possibly also the cron > spool) to a third package (say cron-common/cron-support/cron-base/etc) > that both packages depend on. systemd-cron must ship it's own (blanks) /etc/crontab & /etc/anacrontab to avoid duplicate execution and also has it's own crontab.1 & .5 that documents the "PERSITENT=true" feature and other quirks. Ok for the dirs & placeholders tough; and to move "rm -f /etc/cron.allow|deny" in cron-base postrm. For exemple: Gentoo does ship "cronbase" with only the folders: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-process/cronbase/cronbase-0.3.3.ebuild > : Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> > Ugly, but sometimes there is no other option. > I am quite sure that I had to do this once or twice in my packages and > no adverse effects have ever been reported. Ok, I'll first let cron's maintainer a chance to apply the patch & DTRT ... and I'll wait anyway till I find a new sponsor to update this package: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-systemd-maintainers/2014-December/005181.html Alexandre Detiste
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